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Constitutional Assembly elections were held in Uruguay on 25 June 1933. [1] They followed a presidential coup by Gabriel Terra on 31 March, [2] [3] Following the coup, the Assembly was appointed to formulate a new constitution. [3] The various factions of the Colorado Party emerged as the largest group in the Assembly, winning 151 of the 284 seats. [4]
Party or lema | Votes | % | Seats | |||
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Colorado Party | Batllist Terrist Colorado Party | 80,563 | 32.63 | 95 | ||
Gral. Rivera Colorado Party | 24,088 | 9.76 | 28 | |||
Party for the Colorado Tradition | 13,713 | 5.55 | 15 | |||
Radical Colorado Party | 11,595 | 4.70 | 13 | |||
National Commission for the Unification of the Colorado Party | 802 | 0.32 | 0 | |||
Total | 130,761 | 52.96 | 151 | |||
National Party | 101,419 | 41.08 | 117 | |||
Civic Union | 9,707 | 3.93 | 11 | |||
Communist Party | 4,950 | 2.00 | 5 | |||
Reformist Party | 48 | 0.02 | 0 | |||
Total | 246,885 | 100.00 | 284 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 428,597 | – | ||||
Source: Nohlen, Bottinelli et al. [5] |
The Assembly produced a new constitution which was approved in a referendum, and promulgated the following year. [3] It abolished the National Council of Administration, replacing it with a nine-member Council of Ministers, in which the second party was guaranteed three members. [3] It also gave the party that had finished second in parliamentary elections half the seats in the Senate. [3]